1 September 2014

EBOLA VIRUS - Combating Ebola in Liberia






Stopping the spread of Ebola in West Africa




A member of the Church of Aladura prays on the beach in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 20, 2014. He and other church members said they were praying for God to rescue Liberia from its current crisis. The Ebola virus has killed more than 1,200 people in four African nations, with more in Liberia than any other country.

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Members of the Church of Aladura pray on the beach in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 20, 2014. They said they were praying for God to rescue Liberia from its current crisis. The Ebola virus has killed more than 1,200 people in four African nations, with more in Liberia than any other country.
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A Liberian Army soldier, part of the Ebola Task Force, beats a local resident while enforcing a quarantine on the West Point slum on Aug. 20, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. The government ordered the quarantine of West Point, a congested seaside slum of 75,000, on Wednesday, in an effort to stop the spread of the virus in the capital city. Liberian soldiers were also sent in to the seaside favela to extract West Point Commissioner Miata Flowers and her family members after residents blamed the government for setting up a holding center for suspected Ebola patients to be set up in their community. A mob overran and closed the facility on August 16. The military also began enforcing a quarrantine on West Point, a congested slum of 75,000, fearing a spread of the epidemic.
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Liberian security forces, part of the country's Ebola Task Force, enforce a quarantine on the West Point slum of Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 21, 2014. The quarantine of West Point, a congested favella of 75,000 people, began Wednesday, as the government tries to stop the spread of the virus in the capital city. A mob overran and closed an Ebola isolation ward there on August 16.
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A man covers a very sick Saah Exco, 10, in a back alley of the West Point slum of Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 19, 2014. The boy was one of the patients that was pulled out of a holding center for suspected Ebola patients when the facility was breached by protestors Friday night. A local clinic Tuesday refused to treat the boy, according to residents, because of the danger of infection. Saah's mother died of suspected but untested Ebola in West Point, and his brother, Tamba, 6, died on Friday in the holding center.
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A Liberian burial team carefully puts on protective clothing before retrieving the body of an Ebola victim from his home near Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 17, 2014. The epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four African countries, and Liberia now has had more deaths than any other country.
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A Liberian burial team wearing protective clothing retrieves the body of a 60-year-old Ebola victim in his home near Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 17, 2014.
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Workers prepare the new Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Ebola treatment center  near Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 17, 2014. The facility initially has 120 beds, making it the largest such center for Ebola treatment and isolation in history, and MSF plans to expand it to a 350-bed capacity. Tents at the center were provided by UNICEF.
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Supplies await arrivals to the new Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Ebola treatment center near Monrovia, Liberia.
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Hanah Siafa lies with her daughter Josephine, 10, while hoping to enter the new Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Ebola treatment center on August 17, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. The facility initially has 120 beds, making it the largest such facility for Ebola treatment and isolation in history, and MSF plans to expand it to a 350-bed capacity. Tents at the center were provided by UNICEF. The virus has killed more than 1,000 people in four African countries, and Liberia now has had more deaths than any other country.
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Liberian police depart after firing shots in the air while trying to protect an Ebola burial team in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 16, 2014. A crowd of several hundred local residents, chanting, "No Ebola in West Point," drove away the burial team and their police escort. The mob then forced open an Ebola isolation ward and took the patients out, many saying that the Ebola epidemic is a hoax. The isolation center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID, was being used by the Liberian health ministry to temporarily isolate people suspected of carrying the virus. Some 10 patients had "escaped" the building the night before, according to a nurse, as the center had no medicine to treat them.
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People watch as a crowd protests before entering the grounds of an Ebola isolation center in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 16, 2014.
A mob of several hundred people, chanting, "No Ebola in West Point," opened the gates and took out the patients, many saying that the Ebola epidemic is a hoax. Just moments before they drove off a burial team with police escort, who had tried to take away the bodies of four deceased residents from the neighborhood. The isolation center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID, was being used by the Liberian Health Ministry to temporarily isolate people suspected of carrying the virus.
Some 10 patients had "escaped" the building the night before, according to a nurse, as the center had no medicine to treat them.
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A woman wipes her nose after protesters drove out an Ebola burial team who had come to collect the bodies of four people who had died overnight in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 16, 2014.
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A girl sits alone in a cinema in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 15, 2014. The owner said that few people have come since the Ebola outbreak began.
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A security guard looks over the impoverished West Point neighborhood of Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 15, 2014. People in the area suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being brought by health workers to a temporary isolation center - a closed primary school originally built by USAID, while larger facililities are being constructed to house the surging number of patients.
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Andrew, 14, sits in his one-room home before being taken to an Ebola isolation ward on Aug. 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia.
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A mother and child stand atop their mattresses in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward  in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 15, 2014. People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being brought by Liberian health workers to the center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID, while larger facilities are being constructed to house the surging number of patients.
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A Liberian health worker speaks with families in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 15, 2014.
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A woman cleans the day's catch in the impoverished seaside slum in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 15, 2014. Poor sanitation and close living quarters have contributed to the spread of the Ebola virus, which is transmitted through bodily fluids.
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A sick child lies in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward  in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 15, 2014.
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Ibrahim Fambulle, left, sick and weak, tries to stand as a corpse lies nearby in an Ebola ward in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 15, 2014.
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A girl sells soap as women pray for an end of the Ebola epidemic in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 14, 2014.
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Red Cross workers stand near standing water near a newly-opened Ebola isolation ward set up in a school by the Liberian health ministry, which was closed due to the epidemic, Aug. 14, 2014.
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A man lies in a newly-opened Ebola isolation center set up by the Liberian health ministry in a closed school, Aug. 14, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. They sleep on mattresses on the floor.
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